Today's Exclusives

• Opalesque Exclusive: OPIM launches FX hedge fund focused on G10 currencies [more]

  B. G., Opalesque Geneva for New Managers: Another fund has launched on OP Investment Management (OPIM), a Hong Kong-based hedge fund platform; the Spectron FX Fun

• Wilshire Liquid Alternative Index gains 0.56% in February [more]

  Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: The Wilshire Liquid Alternative Index returned 0.56% in February, slightly underperforming the 0.63% monthly return of the HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index. "February marked a continuation of the renewed risk appetite seen in January, propelling equity and credit ass

• Opalesque Roundup: Hedge funds snap back +4.55% after a hard-hearted 2018: hedge fund news, week 10 [more]

  In the week ending March 15th 2019, a report revealed that the first two months of 2019 offered up the hedge funds industry's best returns to start a year since 2012, when average ret

• Willis Towers Watson appoints Anne Swift to DC Investment Team [more]

  Opalesque Industry Update - Willis Towers Watson has appointed Anne Swift as a Senior Director on its Advisory Investment Services team in London, where she will focus on DC schemes. Ms Swift joins from KPMG, where she served as Head of DC Investment, advising clients on all aspects of their D

Today's Other Voices

• Other Voices: Hong Kong's SFC puts hedge funds under the microscope with complexity rule [more]

  By: Rory Gallaher, Deacons Under the revised Code of Conduct for Persons Licensed by or Registered with the Securities and Futures Commission, which is scheduled to come into effect on 6 April 2019, intermediaries must determine whether a product they are selling is a complex product. If a prod

More Exclusives

• 14. Mar. | Opalesque Exclusive: Research suggests artificial intelligence could take the bias out of hiring [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: Could artificial intelligence (AI) help add diversity to hiring and make industries like tech or finance less homogeneous? New research from Kimberly Houser, Assistant Professor at the Spears Business School at Oklahoma State University, suggests that taking hum

• 13. Mar. | Spring Valley Asset Management launches Diversified Alpha Portfolio, appoints Brett Palatiello as partner [more]

  Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: New Jersey-based alternative investment firm Spring Valley Asset Management (SVAM) announced the launch of the SVAM Diversified Alpha Portfolio, a multi-dimensional, systematic trading system. "We apply creative modeling techniques to a rich set of fundamental and

• 11. Mar. | Opalesque Roundup: Some of the largest multi manager hedge funds advanced in February: hedge fund news, week 10 [more]

  In the week ending March 08th 2019, various reports said many of the hedge fund industry's biggest multi-manager firms advanced in February. Ken Griffin-led Citadel's flagship multi-strategy funds, Izzy Englander's Millennium Management, ExodusPoint Capital Management, Point72 Asset Mana

• 08. Mar. | Opalesque Roundtable: PGGM pushes finance to rethink how ESG/impact investing is viewed [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: When Dutch pension fund PGGM set the goal of €20 billion invested in impact/ESG solutions by 2020, the organization recognized that it would have to do a lot of the work around metrics on its own. Speaking at the recent Opalesque Netherlands Roundtable, Piet Klo

• 05. Mar. | Opalesque Exclusive: Impax Asset Management invests in World Bank bonds designed to empower women [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: The World Bank has announced a $4 million, three-year sustainable bond issue focusing on UN Sustainable Development Goal 5-to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. Impax Asset Management will be the sole investor in the new issue through its P

• 04. Mar. | Opalesque Roundup: Private equity and hedge funds fail to improve gender balance in almost two years: hedge fund news, week 09 [more]

  In the week ending March 1st, 2019, a latest analysis of female representation revealed that the hedge fund and private equity industries' overall gender balance has shown little to no

• 01. Mar. | Opalesque Exclusive: D.E. Shaw examines the negative correlation [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: The emergence of a negative correlation between stocks and bonds as a result of central bank involvement in the market is not just a significant shift in monetary policy. A new paper from D.E. Shaw argues that it also has profound implications for portfolio con

• 01. Mar. | Tikehau Capital doubles AUM in two years, expands to New York [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: Paris-based Tikehau Capital reported total AUM of over €22bn as of Dec. 31, 2018 - more than doubling its AUM within two years. The alternative asset manager focuses on private debt, real estate, private equity and liquid strategies. Tikehau, had set a goal

• 28. Feb. | Opalesque Exclusive: Prime Factor Capital launches crypto fund [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York for New Managers: London-based Prime Factor Capital has launched a new hedge fund focused on making investments in cryptocurrencies. The firm has also closed an equity financing ro

• 27. Feb. | Opalesque Exclusive: Australian emerging hedge fund manager's algorithm sees signs of contraction [more]

  B. G., Opalesque Geneva for New Managers: Portfolio manager Scott Shuttleworth launched the

• 25. Feb. | Opalesque Exclusive: New Asia small and mid-cap hedge fund enters OPIM platform [more]

  B. G., Opalesque Geneva for New Managers: OP Investment Management (OPIM), Asia's leading hedge fund platform, has taken on Kaison Asian Small & Mid Cap F

• 25. Feb. | Opalesque Roundup: Hedge funds less volatile than S&P 500 while posting comparable gains over the long term: hedge fund news, week 08 [more]

  In the week ending February 22nd 2019, a report said hedge funds have a lower volatility than the S&P 500 PR Index: 5.59% compared to 13.60%. Over the longer term, hedge funds have pos

• 22. Feb. | Opalesque Exclusive: Dalton led investor group pushes for change in South Korean equities [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: An investor group led by Dalton Investments and including Brandes Investment Partners, KCGI, Value Partners and Ruane, Cunniff & Goldfarb is pushing for change at big South Korean corporates. The group is urging the Korean national pension and the Government of

• 20. Feb. | Opalesque Exclusive: MIAX Exchange launches VIX competitor [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: A new competitor to the VIX launched today on the MIAX Options Exchange. The competitor - SPIKES - was created by T3 Index, an indexing firm, as part of a partnership with MIAX Options' parent holding company, Miami International Holdings, Inc. The SPIKES In

More Other Voices

• 26. Feb. 2019 | Other Voices: Three investor bugbears fund managers could easily avoid [more]

  By: Karen Fountain, Brodies Here are three "unforced errors" which could be easily avoided. At every industry conference I have attended there has been an investor panel session where deeply felt frustrations have been vented. There is, of course, an inevitable commercial tension b

• 17. Jan. 2019 | Other Voices: Markets in a new key - A theory of meaning and market segmentation [more]

  By Alex Gavrish, Etalon Capital Ltd; author of "Story Investing". A recent article

• 11. Jan. 2019 | Other Voices: How the SEC's list of examination priorities will affect private fund advisors [more]

  By: Jones Day, LLP On December 20, 2018, the Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission released its 2019 Examination Priorities in which OCIE detailed key areas where OCIE currently intends to focus its resources in 2019. The Report cont

• 31. Dec. 2018 | Other Voices: Hedge fund marketing blurs the line on BDCs [more]

  by Dechert LLP: In December 2018, the SEC announced two enforcement actions involving business development companies (BDCs) - one against Fifth Street Management, LLC, the former external registered investment adviser to two BDCs, and the other against KCAP Financial, Inc., an internally managed BD

• 04. Dec. 2018 | Other Voices: How do we solve the public pension fund crisis in the US? Are hedge funds to blame? [more]

  By: Donald A. Steinbrugge, CFA - CEO, Agecroft Partners An article recently published about the grossly underfunded Kentucky State Retirement System suggests that gambling on high fee hedge funds and private equity funds, and the use of placement agents, were primarily to blame. For many readers

• 13. Nov. 2018 | Other Voices: Alternative data could pose risks for fund managers [more]

  By: Joshua M Newville and Jeffrey Neuburger, Proskauer The WSJ recently published an article detailing how companies are monetizing smartphone location data by s

• 31. Oct. 2018 | Other Voices: How to take advantage of the current market sell-off [more]

  By Alex Gavrish, Etalon Capital Ltd; author of "Story Investing" Alex Gavrish explains

• 18. Oct. 2018 | Other Voices: Does hedge-fund activism really increase shareholder value? [more]

  By: Cydney Posner, Cooley, LLP The public debate about hedge-fund activism has long been informed by academic literature that found increases in shareholder value and operating performance after activist interventions. But do hedge-fund activists actually do any long-term good for the companies

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Sea Change Indicators:

Sea Change Long-Term Indicators:

• US Lg Caps – Partial long here – buy rest on test and hold of 200-day MA.

• US Mid Caps – Long; 0.80% downside to support.

• US Small Caps – cash; waiting for test of 200-day MA to trigger buy – roughly 0.45% below Friday’s close.

• MSCI EAFE – cash; 0.45% upside to resistance;

• Emerg. Mkts – cash; waiting for test of 200-day MA to trigger buy – roughly 0.95% below Friday’s close.

Sea Change Opportunistic Indicator:

The current reading is 1.02. We will need to see at least two days above 1.20 and then a turn lower on a daily close. If and when it does give us a “buy” signal, the idea is to go “all in” with equity money.